activation

When it comes to maximizing your performance in the gym, there’s a strategy that can take your training to the next level: priming. Priming involves super setting activation drills and explosive movements before your main lifts, tapping into the powerful concept of Post-Activation Potentiation...

Bret_ContrerasElite Coach Flex Your Brain Bodybuilders have been referring to the mind-muscle connection for a long time, and they’ll typically recommend that new lifters spend time flexing their muscles independently and learning how to activate the muscles properly against resistance. On the...

Every guy has his own theory about which exercises are the best and which exercises suck. Whether we’re analyzing the biomechanics of an exercise (not very likely), “feeling the burn” (more likely), or simply doing a ton of sets and seeing how sore we get over the next few days (ding, ding...

If you are looking to switch up your exercise routine and try something new and challenging, bodyweight moves and calisthenics could become an important part of your overall training plan. As we age, many athletes and gym goer’s find that lifting heavy weights can be tough on the joints, so they...

Structure–activity relations of leucine derivatives reveal critical moieties for cellular uptake and activation of mTORC1-mediated signaling Shushi Nagamori, Pattama Wiriyasermkul, Suguru Okuda, Naoto Kojima, Yoshiyuki Hari, Shigeki Kiyonaka, Yasuo Mori, Hideyuki Tominaga, Ryuichi Ohgaki &...

milanzeremski via Shutterstock We’ve written plenty about the bench press, and thought we were giving you some pretty sound advice for building up your pecs: back firmly on the bench and feet flat on the ground. But perhaps we, and most other weightlifting coaches, have it all wrong. A study...

HYPOTHESIS Multijoint exercises are believed to be superior to isolation exercises. But what if the exercise requires one muscle to span two joints? And what if those joints require muscles to both lengthen and contract? RESEARCH Researchers studied the activity of the rectus femoris...